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"The Prologue in Heaven" is patterned on the [http://www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/LitNote/id-103,pageNum-42.html Book of Job]: essentially a meeting between God and Satan wherein the two make a wager: God allows Satan to test Job in order to prove that the latter's devotion is not based on materialistic reward. | "The Prologue in Heaven" is patterned on the [http://www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/LitNote/id-103,pageNum-42.html Book of Job]: essentially a meeting between God and Satan wherein the two make a wager: God allows Satan to test Job in order to prove that the latter's devotion is not based on materialistic reward. Goethe's The Lord seems to be closest to the image of [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08329a.htm Yahweh] in the Old Testament: one who demands that the righteous fear God and shun evil. | ||
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Spoken by the [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01476d.htm Heavenly Host]: [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12640b.htm Raphael], [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06330a.htm Gabriel], and [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10275b.htm Michael], respectively. | |||
==Commentary== | ==Commentary== | ||